By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
Think of it as a “balancing act.” Filling a student’s head with “content” without equipping the student with skills to actually DO something with that content is ridiculous. You may enable the student to score well on some standardized test, but you don’t prepare the student with the sorts of skills needed to function effectively […]
Read More…I have delivered high school graduation addresses from time to time, and give advice to students going to college. I’ll share this advice and welcome your comments. Perhaps many will not agree my advice– how to prepare for college, what college to select, what to choose as a major, or what should be the main […]
Read More…Standardized testing does not measure “critical skills.” What they do measure is questionable, and the effects of high stakes testing do not seem to bring the sort of desired results as predicted when such testing practices were implemented. Using such tests to measure school performance started in Texas and it looks as though the effort […]
Read More…Our schools focus on standardized testing which, for the most part, determine how adept students are in choosing among four possible “right answers” or “none of the above.” Now that has value! Or does it? Certainly our government thinks it does! Measurements in the form of standardized test scores are the way “performing schools” are […]
Read More…Standardized tests have become a way of life. It is not because they are effective in measuring what students can do or what they know – – as the late Ted Sizer (Founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools) put it, “Standardized tests are perhaps useful only to predict how well a student might do […]
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